sports

Soccer

November 24, 2025

We wrapped up a fun season of fall soccer! It started with the travel tournament in Atlanta and then lots of fun regular season games and then more tournaments at the end! Samantha mostly played striker and center-mid and occassionally wing. She’s so good – I love watching her footwork and the way she can navigate the ball around the other players.

They even came out on top at the Birmingham Bash!

and got second place in the Hoover Tournament!

They even made it to a Legion game…

It’s been a great season with old friends and new friends. Thankful we got put on such a sweet team with some fun competitors!

I love watching Samantha play…

Way to go #52!!

More 9th football

November 21, 2025

I got a photographer to come to the 9th grade game versus Briarwood. It turned out to be a really exciting game that even included a weather delay! But, the Spartans saw it through to a huge win. Maxwell played the whole game and had some awesome plays.

9th grade Football, Briarwood vs MTB Sept 2025

The best was this fantastic pass breakup. I hate that #11 is in the front of the shot because it was awesome!

Spartans were trailing at the end of the 4th and had a chance to score on 3rd down but didn’t make it. There was 1 second left on the clock and the QB threw for a TD and we scored! SO exciting! Our awesome kicker then kicked a field goal to win the game! Talk about exciting!

Really proud of this whole team on a fantastic season!

Go Spartans Go!

9th football

November 20, 2025

Maxwell had another great season of Spartan football! The 9th grade team started in the summer with hot practices and then started going before school every day. It was a long season of very early morning wake up calls for 6am practices at the high school. They then stayed and had strength for first period and then took a bus to the junior high. Everyone was tired but it was worth it.

The season started with Spartan Day…

The boys also got breakfast at school on game days…

Their team had an awesome season overall! Maxwell started the season strong as the starting cornerback.

About halfway through the season, the coach switched things up and started another kid each week. We really couldn’t figure out why as Maxwell had been playing great and rarely let anyone get by him. But, that’s football and I was proud of how Maxwell handled the disappointment.

The final game of the season was super exciting! Spartans were down by 21 at halftime and came back to win the game in double overtime! What an incredible way to end the season! GSG!

I did get a photographer to come to one of the games so will share those tomorrow. It was a good season for #29 with some frustrations, plenty of playtime, and a whole lot of hardwork. I am so proud of my cornerback!

Go Spartans and go Maxwell!

More football

November 7, 2025

For two of the games this season I had a professional photographer take picstures and he got some great shots of Spencer!

7th grade MTB Football vs Clay-Chalkville 2025

This was an awesome pass breakup by 38!

Get in there Spence!

Sideline break!

Spencer holding on to that one foot to take him down!

Go Spence go! The photographer also came to the game where Spencer was captain. Love these shots!

He also got some fantastic action shots of my lock down corner!

When he grabs on, he’s not letting go!

Look at him in the bottom of that pile!

Spencer Brown…

with the tackle!

Halftime break!

Back at it!

https://flic.kr/p/2rDJwvE

Love this play by play…

I love this kid.

What a season! So proud of Spencer and the entire 7th grade Spartan team. Go Spartans go!

7th grade football

November 6, 2025

Spencer’s football season wrapped up two weeks ago and what an awesome season it was! He worked so hard and earned a starting spot on that team and proved himself to be the first string cornerback over and over again. I was so proud of his hard work and persistance! Practices started all the way back in June in the heat…

and continued every afternoon once school started. At first Spencer worked out at the quarterback position but then it became evident that another boy had that positioned locked up so he pivoted, gave DB a try, and found the perfect spot for him – just like his big brother! He was an aggressive and reliable cornerback all season long. He made incredible tackles and played his position so well! Let’s go 38!

The season started with the Spartan Day scrimmage…

and continued through 8 or so games. The team did well but was also plagued by injuries – they lost their quarterback after game 3 and several other players were sidelined by halfway through the season. If they had been able to keep everyone in the game, I think they really could have had a winning season.